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...demagogue and a conscious liar" (both men were slightly wounded). Two years later, he was imprisoned on an offshore island for defying a presidential ban on political rallies during a general strike, and staged an exciting prison break, attempting to swim to an escape boat. The break failed (he swam to the wrong boat), but Peruvians thrilled to the story. In last year's abortive election, he lost by a bare 12,867 votes to Haya de la Torre, and then, crying fraud, attempted to lead his supporters in rebellion. At that point, the military stepped in to settle...
Against the Shark. Queen of the world's marathon swimmers, Mary is the daughter of a Shafter, Calif., dentist who would have preferred a Portia to a naiad. But law was for landlubbers, and in 1958 she swam from Malibu to Santa Monica, a distance of 18 miles, in 8 hrs. 19 min. Next came California's 25-mile Catalina...
...bankroll her adventures. Daddy did not offer, and Mary did not ask. To her rescue came the National Tea Council (she drinks tea during her swims), the Detroit chapter of the National Society of Non-Smokers (she does not smoke) and the National Swimming Pool Institute. When Mary swam the Strait of Gibraltar last June, solicitous Spanish smugglers provided boats and guides. In July, a Turkish newspaper persuaded her to visit Turkey. She shocked the staid Turks by wandering around in Bermuda shorts, but within a month she made herself a national heroine by swimming the Bosporus (both crosswise...
...outstanding performance of his career, John Pringle swam a 4:24.5 for a second place in the 400-yard individual medley in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships in Raleigh, N.C., yesterday. The Harvard swimming ace swam four full seconds faster than he ever had before to finish two seconds behind victor Ed Townsend of Yale...
...Yale swam away with the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Swimming Championships at Princeton this weekend, beating its closest contender by 66 points and leaving a tired Harvard team a distant eight places in its wake...